I’m your thimbleberry
The life and times of Rubus parviflorus
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I’m your thimbleberry: The life and times of Rubus parviflorus
“Ramone’s Bakery.” “Hi, may I talk to your baker?” Jon Norris, the daytime baking production manager at Ramone’s on Harrison in Eureka, gets on the phone. “Do you make thimbleberry pie? Or tarts, or scones, or cookies, or … ?” “I don’t know anybody who uses thimbleberries,” says Norris. “You couldn’t get enough of ’em…
Beyond fingerpainting: A full palette of kiddie art options at the Graves
My son has been exposed to art pretty much from the get-go. When he was one month old, I helped hang a gallery show at the Ink People with him in a sling and then stayed for the opening reception. He went to his first poetry reading at about four months. I drag him around…
Let them get stung! Plus: Herbs and herbicides, marital discord resolved
Judging from the tone of your e-mails, you people are busy this summer. I’ve had a flurry of questions from people who are undertaking some large, impressive garden project or another. If you’ve got questions about your garden, send them to me, and at some point in the not too distant future you might open…
Hairspray, Larry and Harry
Previews I suppose the major opening on Friday, July 20, is Hairspray , a film musical based on the successful Broadway musical that was, in turn, based on John Waters’ 1988 campy film comedy of the same name. There is no John Waters in sight here, as the film version is directed by sometime choreographer…
Root roast — Earthy summer eats from the oven — with radishes?
What foods do Americans miss when they are abroad? I never asked anybody, not even my husband. The only person whose food longings I can relate is Mark Twain. I recently read his autobiographical book, A Tramp Abroad , written in 1879 while on an extended stay in Europe. It includes a scathing assessment of…
Positive Force
If you dig African music, you probably don’t need to know much more than the fact that saxophonist/bandleader Femi Kuti is the eldest son of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the undisputed Godfather of Afrobeat. If you know that, then you know you want to hear him play on Monday. Femi quit school in 1978 to take…
Stick game — Is the Klamath River headed for disaster, again?
The water in the Klamath is just right for swimming. That is, unless you’re a salmon, in which case it may be the perfect temperature for another fish kill. At least that’s what Keith Parker of the Yurok Tribe is saying. Parker sent out an e-mail alert last week in which he reported that the…
Lady Bird
The passing of Lady Bird Johnson, the widow of President Lyndon B. Johnson, has garnered much press in the past week. A passionate conservationist and beautifier of America’s highways, Mrs. Johnson is better known locally for the grove that was dedicated in her name in August 1969 in Redwood National Park, a spot which Amy…
North and South
Railroad politics — it’s getting pretty grim, folks. Let’s extract two points from our recent cover story about the North Coast Railroad Authority (“The Squeeze,” July 3). First, the authority and its supporters will block any move to convert the dead and decaying train tracks around Humboldt Bay for use as a bicycle and pedestrian…
